The RPG genre is in a very good place at the moment, providing fans with all kinds of different options that cater to very specific interests. Monark from Lacarse and NIS America does just that, mixing turn-based combat, strategy, and horror elements together. Mixed blends can often produce mixed results, but Monark manages to strike...
Although it used to be one of the most prominently featured arcade fighting game franchises out there, it’s been quite a while since we have last seen The King of Fighters franchise in action. The last time we had seen the SNK fighter, it had unfortunately released to a divisive reaction nearly six years ago....
In 2018, Ubisoft introduced a limited-time mode in Rainbow Six Siege called “Outbreak.” The cooperative multiplayer mode tasked players with taking out alien opponents, rather than humans. A few years have passed, and that concept has evolved into a full game in the form of Rainbow Six Extraction. The game maintains enough Rainbow Six elements...
This year has been a very strong one for Nintendo, and the company has one final first-party offering in 2021 in Big Brain Academy: Brain vs. Brain. The first entry in the series since 2007, Brain vs. Brain offers players the opportunity to flex their mental muscles on their own, or while competing with other...
While the Xbox Series X has been available for almost a year now, there are very few exclusives that have truly pushed the system’s graphic abilities. Drifting in just before the console’s one-year anniversary is Forza Horizon 5, the newest entry in the series from Playground Games. This time around, the developer decided to bring...
Nintendo’s Metroid franchise has long been known for its high quality. While the series has had a couple of missteps over the last 35 years, games like Super Metroid and Metroid Prime are regarded as some of the greatest of all time. Metroid Dread is the first game in the franchise to appear on Nintendo...
The Good Life is going to test you. It posits an interesting question about whether or not speeding through life makes it a worse-off, more challenging experience overall. Incorporating real life, seemingly random punishments on top of innocuous activities and tasks, The Good Life can make even the most routine activities seem daunting through smaller...
Ace Attorney fans in North America have had a very long wait, but it’s finally at an end thanks to The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles, a new title from Capcom. The compilation includes The Great Ace Attorney: Adventures and The Great Ace Attorney 2: Resolve in one package for PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, and PC....
In the Nintendo Switch era, a number of older first-party games have gotten a second chance at finding a fan base, including Super Mario 3D World, Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker, and Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze. Miitopia is the latest Nintendo-published game ported to the platform, and it just might provide the bizarre RPG the...
Arc System Works is one of the most notable fighting game studios to this day due in large part to the success of the Guilty Gear franchise since its inception back in 1998. Through the years, fans have seen that first game expand with several different updates, sequels, and spin-offs culminating with the release of...
